Wu, W.; Chen, Y.; Gu, Y.; Guo, A.; Wang, H.; Guan, J. Land Management Scale and Carbon Balance Ratio: Spatial Spillover Effects and Threshold Characteristics. Preprints2024, 2024041385. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1385.v1
APA Style
Wu, W., Chen, Y., Gu, Y., Guo, A., Wang, H., & Guan, J. (2024). Land Management Scale and Carbon Balance Ratio: Spatial Spillover Effects and Threshold Characteristics. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1385.v1
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Wu, W., Hao Wang and Jun Guan. 2024 "Land Management Scale and Carbon Balance Ratio: Spatial Spillover Effects and Threshold Characteristics" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1385.v1
Abstract
The impact of the agriculture net carbon effect is crucial for climate change mitigation, yet research on this topic in China is currently insufficient. In this study, the carbon balance ratio (CBR) is used to characterise the net carbon effect of agriculture, and the spatial Durbin model and threshold regression model were used to empirically analyse the CBR with a sample of 30 provincial-level regions in China from 2004 to 2019. The aim was to investigate the mechanism of the influence of the land management scale (SCALE) of farming on the CBR. The results of the study indicate that national farming generally has a net sink effect, with large changes in interannual fluctuations; the expansion of SCALE has an obvious role in increasing sinks and reducing emissions, and has a positive spatial spillover effect on CBR, with significant spatial heterogeneity. Furthermore, as the SCALE expands, the direction of the influence of rural residents’ income and education level on CBR changes in the opposite direction, showing a significant non-linear relationship characteristic. However, in most areas, the SCALE threshold has not yet been reached, suggesting that the improvement in education levels can still offset the negative impact of economic income growth in the short term. The study recommends paying attention to the role of farmers’ human capital, changing production methods, and implementing carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals to enhance the net sink effect of the farming industry, which would be achieved by increasing land management scale.
Keywords
land management scale; net carbon effect; carbon balance ratio; net carbon sink; spatial spillover effect; threshold characteristics
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Economics
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